Franklin delano roosevelt education center

  • The Center's facilities include three classrooms for interactive and hands-on activities, each with a fifty student capacity, and state-of-the-art audiovisual.
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    FDR's Education

    "I am getting on finely both mentally and physicallyI am all right in Latin, Greek, Science and French; a little rusty in Algebra but not more so than the others."

         - Franklin Roosevelt, letter to his parents, September 18,

    Until age 14, FDR was educated at home by tutors and governesses. In , he entered Groton School, an elite Massachusetts boarding school for the sons of wealthy families. Groton was run by the Reverend Endicott Peabody, an affectionate but strict taskmaster who instilled in his students a sense of duty to humanity, especially through public service. Franklin idolized Peabody. But he found it difficult to stand out among his peers. He had come to Groton two years after the rest of his class and did not excel in sports, which were highly prized at the school.

    Young FDR dreamed of entering the U.S. Naval Academy, but his father insisted he attend Harvard. He enrolled there in That same year, James Roosevelt - long
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt: Life Before the Presidency

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born to James and Sara Roosevelt in James was a landowner and businessmen of considerable, but not awesome, wealth from New York. He likely joined the Democratic Party in the s and identified with the party for the remainder of his life, although he voted for Republicans on a number of occasions. A widower, he married Sara Delano, who was twenty-six years his junior, in Sara, one of the five beautiful Delano sisters, came from a family of considerable means and was notable both for her aristocratic manner and her independent streak.

    Franklin spent his youth near Hyde Park, about fifty miles north of New York City, on a large estate and farm tended by hundreds of workers. Insulated from the outside world and schooled at home by tutors until a teenager, Franklin had limited contact with his peers. Nonetheless, the family atmosphere was one of support and affection for the only child. Sara Roosevelt pr

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    President of the United States from to

    "FDR" redirects here. For other uses, see FDR (disambiguation) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (disambiguation).

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Official campaign portrait,

    In office
    March 4, &#;– April 12,
    Vice President
    Preceded byHerbert Hoover
    Succeeded byHarry S. Truman
    In office
    January 1, &#;– December 31,
    LieutenantHerbert H. Lehman
    Preceded byAl Smith
    Succeeded byHerbert H. Lehman
    In office
    March 17, &#;– August 26,
    PresidentWoodrow Wilson
    Preceded byBeekman Winthrop
    Succeeded byGordon Woodbury
    In office
    January 1, &#;– March 17,
    Preceded byJohn F. Schlosser
    Succeeded byJames E. Towner
    Born

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt


    ()January 30,
    Hyde Park, New York, U.S.
    DiedApril 12, () (aged&#;63)
    Warm Springs, Georgia, U.S.
    Resting placeSpringwood Estate
    Political partyDemocratic
    Spouse
    Children6, inc